Our innovative Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition (NEON) project has made the headlines..in India!. The project is exploring whether a South Asian model proven to promote healthy nutrition in children can “travel” successfully to the UK and help children of Bangladeshi origin in East London.Professor Monica Lakhanpaul is leading the project and spoke to The Goan newspaper about the bi-directional exchange of knowledge that is making a difference in one of London’s less advantaged communities.

Professor Utley has experience of working on a wide variety of problems in health and health care, spanning many clinical areas. He is committed to assisting those planning, delivering or evaluating health services by developing, adapting and applying operational research techniques. Martin also acts as scientific advisor to the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) and is editor of the journal Operations Research for Health Care.

Helen is a consultant in public health medicine and a health services researcher. She is a member of the CLAHRC research partnership team, and Deputy Director of the CLAHRC Academy. Her research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate health care and public health services.

Harry Rutter is a public health physician. He is a senior clinical research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; senior strategic adviser on obesity to Public Health England; an adjunct professor of public health at University College Cork; and an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford. He was the founder director of the National Obesity Observatory for England 2007-2011, led the development of the English National Child Measurement Programme childhood obesity surveillance system, chaired the NICE Programme Development Group (PDG) for guidance on promoting walking and cycling, was a member of the NICE PDG on preventing obesity and the Department of Health Expert Panel on obesity, sat on the management group of the Foresight Obesity project, and has helped to lead the development of the WHO Europe Health Economic Assessment Tool (WHO HEAT). He is currently involved in research assessing the role of social and environmental factors on both obesity and physical activity, and the research and policy implications of intervening in complex system.

Professor Osborne’s research focuses on the interface between physical and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology and the provision of effective services for people with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. He also works on improving acute care. He has been a clinical academic consultant at UCL since 2003. David also works as a NHS consultant psychiatrist in Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.

Silvie is a Teaching Fellow at the CLAHRC Academy. She has a PhD in Health Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, where she also lectured and tutored while conducting her research. Before joining UCL, she completed a Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan, USA and was the Research Lead at a child health charity in London, UK. Her research interests include management of chronic pain, digital health, and patient education, using qualitative, mixed methods, and translational research approaches

Emma Dunphy is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist with a particular interest in rehabilitation of sports injuries. Emma’s current role is at Homerton University Hospital Sports and Musculoskeletal Medicine Clinic. During her year with us Emma developed content for an existing website and tested this web-based intervention to support patients in rehabilitation who wanted more independence and better information.

Emma was successful in her application for the prestigious Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). She started her fully-funded PhD in April 2017, and through her doctoral research will be developing an E-Health intervention to improve rehabilitation for anterior cruciate ligament injuries.